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Edmund Malesky

Edmund Malesky is Professor of Political Economy at Duke University; he specializes in economic development, authoritarian institutions and comparative political economy in Vietnam. In 2012, Malesky received a medal from the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry for my role in promoting economic development through the United States Agency for International Development’s Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index; in 2013, he was appointed by US President Obama to serve on the board of the Vietnam Education Foundation. Malesky is also the technical advisor to the United Nations Development Program’s Provincial Administrative Performance Index. He has published extensively in leading political science and economic journals and received various awards, including the Harvard Academy Fellowship and the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship. His two most recent books are China’s Governance Puzzle: Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State (coauthored in 2017 with Jonathan Stromseth and Dimitar Gueorguiev) and Incentives to Pander: How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain (coauthored in 2018 with Nate Jensen).